MSI Teases Gaming Z97 motherboard

MSI is teasing a little with their upcoming Gaming Z97 motherboards, these will be released in a Gaming 7, 5 and 3 series. The Intel Z97 Express chipset based motherboards have socket LGA1150 and support Haswell processors including the new refresh processors. MSI applies their popular red and black Dragon theme again.

The Z97 OC series motherboards will feature V-Check Points 2 panel where you can check out voltaged with a DDM and yeah, we also see other OC features like a DEBUG LED, Power On/OFF, Reset and OC configuration switches/buttons.

As you guys have learned by now, the Intel Z97 Express chipset will come with a PCIe M.2 interface, extra USB / SATA ports and a few subtle changes. That PCIe M.2 interface however is very interesting as it will speed up the SATA interface tremendously and thus higher performance SSDs finally will be free from the SATA3 interface bottleneck.

Sata3 is 6 Gbps, The M.2 interface can fo 10Gbps, meaning that is a theorethical 1250 MB/sec, minus overhead of course.

lol, they don't have/know what new to advertise that is worth it about the Z97... Black "Next Gen" IO panel... lol

No need to post further. This sums it up - when a new chipset is released and the highlight is in small letters "supports the M.2" interface and a huge picture of a hot new rear I/O shield no one including the user sees, you know the chipset is a big zzzzzzz.

yes, funny how intel milks its chipsets even though Z87 will be compatible with Haswell refresh and looks like Broadwell too.
Although I see their point, they need to make the market going..

But what's funnier most tech sites claim Haswell refresh wont be compatible with Z87 nvm Broadwell..
They all take that vr-zone slide for granted, while Intel PR/CEO said Broadwell will be compatible with existing systems Z87 and brand new systems Z97, fail

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#4793132 Posted on: 04/02/2014 05:20 PM
Oh more sh!tty motherboards from MSI with the worst RMA of them all.